Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-11-25
NEWS NOTES.

! One black woman stabbed another to
| death Sunday night at Springfield, Missouri.
| The schooner Bessie BarWick, OF st. Cath
/ crimes. Ontario, has been missing since OctO-
b-r %, and il is feared that she IS lost She
was last seen from the steamer Celtic, the
captain Of which is severely censured for not
going TO her assistance, as it is said she was
| flying signals OF distress
Yellow fever has appeared at Manatee,
Florida, where sixteen cases are reported
The Canadian customs officials have
seized $4,000 worth OF jeWelry that man
named Ievie and his wife were attempting
TO smuggle into the country.
It is rumored at Montreal that the wife Of
a well known Chicago merchant and pOlIti-
clan whose name ia not given, committed
suicide by shooting herself at MontmOrency
Falls Thursday night
A prairie FIRE In the vicinity OF MRndau,
Dakota. destroyed considerable property
and burned the dead bodies OF several Indian
children, whose father, 8 Sioux, had buried
them according to the custom Of his tribe.
Polo viii be the leading sport in the east,
this wiuter.
The lead industry Of Galen aisiinssa flourish
ing condition, and the yield Of the mines IN
the vicinity Is said to be increasing rather
than diminishing.
The state and national authorities are
having a conflict in Texas over a Kansas
/ CITY drummer who was arrested By the
former for not having a license.
An explosion at the Omaha gas-works did
damage to the amount of $4,000.
Commissioner Sparks will probably re-
sign on account of the land middle. Cos
sip has it that Secretary Lamar VIII be pro
NOTED to the United States bench ana that
Postmaster General Villas Will probably take
his place.
E-.ea E.s.s.
law is the equalization of oil rates to Pacific
coast points. Formerly, by an ubiquitous
arrangement with the railroads, that gigan-
tic monopoly, the Standard OH company,
enjoyed a special rate that made competition
absolutely impossible. The operation of the
law has fortunately put a stop to this unfair
discrimination.
In a sermon preached in New York, sun
day, Rev. Robert COilyer expressed the
belief that the anarchists who were hanged
in Chicago had deserved the fate, and said
that the time had come TO adopt heroic
measures with anarchism IN America.
A libel suit which was instituted by Rev.
W. n. Robinson, Presbyterian minister Of
MOrrilltOn, Arkansas, against Rev. A. X.
Winfield, editor of the arkansas Methodist,
has resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff Of
$4,000.
A call has been issued for a convention to
be held at Aberdeen, Dakota, on December
18th, for the purpose of petitlon1ng congress
to authorize the holding OF a convention to
frame a constitution for a state embracing
the whole territory
An injunction was issued at Winnipeg
against the building of the Red River Valley
railroad over lots belonging to the crown,
which necessitates the building Of the road
by force If at all.
One of the biggest gas wells in Ohio was
struck, recently, near the town Of Cheyolt.
The well flows at the rate of hve million
fsrTf1 Tr 1T q
hundred pounds to she square inch
Forty Of the brakemen on the Chicago,
Milwaukee, and st. Paul railroad struck
Monday, at Mason City, Iowa. upon being
ordered to 90 out on dOuble-headers. A
general strike Is predicted all along the
division as far west as chamberlain.
Dakota.
Edward Holroyd, ar eccentric recluse who /
lived near O'Brienvine, Ohio, was found
dead In his home, Sunday. His estate Is
said 10 be worth Sl5OOOO.
John H. Weber, an employe Of the North
ern Pacific Express company at st. Paul,
has disappeared, taking with him a large
amount Of money that had been expressed
to western points.
The house of a eolored man named Gull
yer, who lived near SEVERN, Maryland, was
destroyed by fire, and Culver and two of his
children persisted in the flames.
Lon f. Stephens. of Boouville, Missouri,
has been appointed receiver Of the collapsed
Fifth National bank Of st. Louis.
Lord Rosebery has been elected rector Of
/ Glasgow university by vote OF obI against
$40 for Lord LyttOn.
H. II. Chittsnden, the assignee Of A. s.
Hatch 81 Co., the New YORK stock brokers,
says that the firms liabilities will not reach
| 100000.
The shah of Persia intends TO visit the
principal countries Of Europe next spring.
Eight Crow Indians who took part in the
| late uprising have been incarcerated at Fort
| Smelling.
| The conference between representatives
/ of the book and job printers and Of the
| association of employers has tended to IN
| crease the bitterness of the strikers who say
that the members Of the IypOthetae are evi-
| d ntly bent upon destroying the union Of
| employees,
It is announced that Rev. Frenci5 L. Pat
/ ton will succeed DR.. McCOsh as president
/ of Princeton college.
Secretary Lamar said Wednesday that if he
we're offered a seat on the supreme bench
he would accept the appointment as the
/ greatest honor of his life.
r. h. c. Hill, a prominent stock broker
/ of Philadelphia, has failed.
The interest taken in the Carney
/ McAuliffe prlzs-hght shows that such brutal
| displays have lost none of their popularity
in spite Of our much boosted civilization.
| The men punched each other for four hours
| and hfty-fve minutes, when the enthusiasm
/ of their admiring friends became so I'M
| comfortable that they we're obliged TO give
vent 70 their feelings by participating in the
! affair and thus put stop to the battle.
| 1t is believed that the Illinois Contra
railroad will soon extend its line to st. Paul
| Nothing new was developed at the inquest
I On the body OF the anarchist Lingg Wednes-
/ day. How he got possession of the bomb
/ with which he killed himself is still mys-